“Her life, except for reading, had been dull—but it had not been in vain.”
Source: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 20 (p. 570)
“the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.”
Source: How Reading Changed My Life
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