No furniture so charming as books. — Sydney Smith · Skopia

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No furniture so charming as books.

1845

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Smith, Sydney. Quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by Saba Holland. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, ch. 9.

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