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There was no need for a doctor; it was rare to call one for something as routine as childbirth, and the nearest, in Basingstoke, was seven miles away over bad roads. In any case, “everything was soon happily over.”
So crazy to imagine! Women had to be extra tough.
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
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