“A blessed companion is a book,—a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.”
Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) English dramatist and writer
Books, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions.”
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