"Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things."

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Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.

— Augustus William Hare