The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that n…

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The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time. ✨ Wilkie Collins (2014). My Miscellanies, p.60, The Floating Press
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The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time. ✨ Wilkie Collins (2014). My Miscellanies, p.60, The Floating Press

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