No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, l…

Charles Dickens
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No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. ✨ Charles Dickens (2009). Our Mutual Friend, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.
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