I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I li…

Virginia Woolf
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.99, Wordsworth Editions
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.99, Wordsworth Editions

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