“Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.”
George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 51.
“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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