“It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.”
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Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
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Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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