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The only money that I spent in a whole year was one dollar for a library ticket -- the best dollar I ever spent in my life ! Good books , and there are plenty of them free in all cities , are the best things in the world , anyway , to keep a boy out of devilment . The boy who will put into his head what he will get out of good books will win out over the one who gets his clothes full of chalk from billiard cues . One day the `` Old Gentleman '' saw me at the noon hour as I was going to the library with a book under my arm . ` So you read nights , do you , Billie , ' said he . ` Well , you keep it up and you will get ahead of the boys who do n't . ' `` Work ?