The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes foun…

Virginia Woolf
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The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Orlando: A Biography, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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