I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that 'such as he now is, I must shortly be.' Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!
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Your borrowers of books-those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
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Permalink to quote #28 The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
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