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why buy a book when you can join the library

why buy a book when you can join the library is the alternative form of why buy a book when you can join a library.

Meaning of why buy a book when you can join a library

Proverb

why buy a book when you can join a library?

  1. (humorous) Being available for sexual relationships with various people is preferable to committing oneself to a single partner.

Questions about why buy a book when you can join the library

What is why buy a book when you can join the library the alternative form of?
Why buy a book when you can join the library is the alternative form of why buy a book when you can join a library.

Words near why buy a book when you can join the library in the dictionary

  1. why
  2. why am I not surprised
  3. why and wherefore
  4. why aye
  5. why buy a book when you can join a library
  6. why buy a book when you can join the library
  7. why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free
  8. why come
  9. why for
  10. why God invented
  11. why in God's name

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