TEN THOUSAND OTHER REMARKS.
One enters a great library with a feeling of buoyant expectation; one is rich—beyond the dreams of avarice; one strolls serenely, glancing at titles, and nameis, pulling a book out here and there, passing by many hundreds one has never heard of before, lingering over a few one has read, a few one has always wished to read, a few more one knows by name; then one sits down a little bewildered; one's feeling of expectation has ebbed away and a sense of resignation, has taken its place : ‘I. could spend the rest of my life in this.Kilbra.ryone says, ‘and never hope to read half the books of which it in composed.’ It is like trying to discuss the soul of a nation ; one can make a few random remarks which one feels to be relevant, but there will always remain ten thousand other remarks, all relevant, which one can never hope to make.”—Mr Desmond Hafmswoirtli, an Englishman residing in Paris, in “The Essence of the English.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1930, Page 2
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171TEN THOUSAND OTHER REMARKS. Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1930, Page 2
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