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"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices"
- William Lyon Phelps
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William Lyon Phelps
between January 2, 1865 and August 21, 1943. He/she was a famous
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