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Quote card: To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations, such is a pleasure beyond compare.

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations, such is a pleasure beyond compare.”

Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness (about 1330), 13 (Donald Keene translation)

An evening with a good book after a long week is a cheap and lovely reward.

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