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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
-Mary Wortley Montagu
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No Entertainment Is So Cheap As Reading,

Mary Wortley Montagu
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little norman churches no great universities nor public schools -- no oxford, nor eton, nor harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no epsom nor ascot some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in american life.
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