"True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it."

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The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

— Virginia Woolf