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A Great Library Easily Begets Affection, Which May Deepen Into Love.

Given Pounds And Five Years, And An Ordinary Man Can In The Ordinary Course, Without Any Undue Haste Or Putting Any Pressure Upon His Taste, Surround Himself With Books, All In His Own Language, And Thence Forward Have At Least One Place In The World.

A Conventional Good Read Is Usually A Bad Read, A Relaxing Bath In What We Know Already. A True Good Read Is Surely An Act Of Innovative Creation In Which We, The Readers, Become Conspirators.

History Is A Pageant And Not A Philosophy.

I Am Far Too Much In Doubt About The Present, Far Too Perturbed .about The Future, To Be Otherwise Than Profoundly Reverential About The Past.