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Shakespeare for Every Night of the Year

by Colin Salter

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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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