A garland of quotations CXXVIII

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BOOKS! THE KIND PEOPLE LIKE!

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published World, world, O world!But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,Life would not yield to age.•Shakespeare, Lear (1606).

Happy people on many worlds—! They aren’t cursed by relentless fiends like I am.
•Jerry Siegel, Superma...