Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you…

Virginia Woolf
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Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.828, Wordsworth Editions
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