Booklovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconsciously as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug.
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground — not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.
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