“Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.”
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Source: Death in a Tenured Position
“When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.”
Attributed to Starrett in Michael Dirda, On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling (2012), page 112.
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