“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
Letter to Ottoline Morrell (January 1922)
“The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books.”
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
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