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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
Approximate author period: c. 1953 AD · modern
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- Roald Dahl
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- Approximate author period: c. 1953 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1916 to 1990; Wikidata Q25161, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25161 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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