A garland of quotations CXLIII

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THE BOOKS PEOPLE LIKE!

By strange device were they brought there,
They knew not how, nor knew not where.
•Walter Scott, Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field (1808).

There are staircases in every passage, and passages to every closet.
•Fanny Burney, diary (1786).

There wa...