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The fact that stamp collecting has long been the most popular hobby in the world, with over 16 million enthusiasts in the United States alone, is a good indication of how much fascination and appeal these colorful little pieces of gummed paper exert.
ROBERT OBOJSKI, A First Stamp Album for Beginners
It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.
DAVE BARRY, Dave Barry's Bad Habits
Much of the fun of stamp collecting is knowing from what countries stamps come, when they were printed, and what events they commemorate.
DANIEL FOX, Arrowheads of the Central Great Plains
Collecting, especially of the classifying sort epitomized by stamp collecting, offered a means to seem to gain control of the world and of the past.
RUSSELL W. BELK, Collecting in a Consumer Society
In their stamp collecting, boys ... played within the discourse of commerce and nationalism and learned its language, learning to put the rest of the world literally under their thumbs.
LEAH DILWORTH, Acts of Possession
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