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— Penelope Fitzgerald"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity."
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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