<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450582" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Old Book Store</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is an old bookstore, on the other side of town.<br>The owner, a man of gentle disposition and kindly mold, <br>Changed an empty, cold, commercial store into a warm<br>And friendly shop. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With faith, hope and trust, he stirred a pound <br>Of old Americana with a cup of European flare.<br>Then, he added good old Texas charm to complement the mix.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The symmetry of shelves gives one a feeling of congenial Cordiality. Their polished woods, mahogany and oak, colored by The hand of age, exposes one to welcome warmth and shades of Soothing calm. It is a grand repository, holding silent urns of Moldered learning, side by side, with tomes of modern thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So come, indulge yourself and spend a guiltless hour seeking<br>Out a seldom-read old book found back in some secluded niche.<br>Imbibe the long, settled wine of knowledge poured from ancient<br>Literary ewers, filled with vintage scholarship.<br>Walk the paths of knowing, knowing they were walked<br>Before by half-remembered authors, with half-forgotten names.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Allow the spirit of the hour to pass unfettered through the Mind, where re-awakened literature supplies the substance of the Past and gives insight unto the future.<br>Rise to the superior society of your own thoughts, <br>Where memory turns to gaze on time gone by, <br>Illuminated by the flame of Future's dawn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lynn+W.+Petty">Lynn W. Petty</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450582" data-title="An Old Book Store de Lynn W. Petty" data-description="There is an old bookstore, on the other side of town. The owner, a man of gentle disposition and kindly mold, Changed an empty, cold, commercial store into a warm And friendly shop. With faith, hope and trust, he stirred a pound Of old America..."></div> </div> </div>

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