It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no rac… - William Makepeace Thackeray

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It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or, perhaps, who read books, so little as literary men.