Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.”
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 51.
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A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't." by George Gordon Byron?
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