Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is one of the world's most popular hobbies, with the number of collectors in the United States alone estimated to be over 20 million.
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Famous quotes containing the words stamp collecting, stamp and/or collecting:
“Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“In the very midst of the crowd about this wreck, there were men with carts busily collecting the seaweed which the storm had cast up, and conveying it beyond the reach of the tide, though they were often obliged to separate fragments of clothing from it, and they might at any moment have found a human body under it. Drown who might, they did not forget that this weed was a valuable manure. This shipwreck had not produced a visible vibration in the fabric of society.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)