“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups (1891)
Friday, June 3, 2011
Quote of the Day (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., on the Plight of a Bibliophile)
“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups (1891)
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