“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
Eugene Field (1850–1895) American writer
“All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed… No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
Source: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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