• ... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

    Edith Wharton: ... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
    Edith Wharton (2013). “A Backward Glance”, p.216, Lulu Press, Inc