"books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement."

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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

— Jane Austen