Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diab…

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). The works: With a biographical sketch, p.10
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