To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief…

Virginia Woolf
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). The Common Reader, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc
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