Samuel Paterson Quotes

Samuel Paterson was a bookseller, auctioneer, cataloguer, librarian, lecturer and author.

✵ 1728 – 1802
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Samuel Paterson Quotes

“Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.”

Joineriana: or The Book of Scraps (London: 1772), Vol. I, p. 40

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