“I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.”

—  James Branch Cabell

"Auctorial Induction"
The Certain Hour (1916)

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