Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for the very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
- George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1871
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