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“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.”

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Book:The House of Paper

Source: The House of Paper

“In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.”

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Book:End Papers: Literary Recreations

Source: End Papers: Literary Recreations

“O my darling books…how dear to me are they all! For have I not chosen them one by one, gathered them in with the sweat of my brow? I do love you all! It seems as if, by long and sweet companionship, you had become part of myself.”

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Author:Antoine Issac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy

“A fig for your precious society with its bridge parties, its inane chatter, its cheap mentality; its dances and vulgar banquets; its snobbery and cheap pretension. The humblest library can show you upon a single shelf better society and far more select company than all the drawing-rooms of Europe, America, and South Africa.”

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Book:Round My Library Fire: A Book about Books

Source: Round My Library Fire: A Book about Books

“We believed in this country in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and risked everything on it.”

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Author:Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books