Life: September 21, 1758 - February 21, 1838
Birthday: September 21
Death: February 21
O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy and possess you-persons, perhaps, less worthy of you than your old master. Yet how dear to me are they all! Have I not chosen them one by one, gathered them all in with the sweat of my brow? I do love you all!
Topics: Book, Love You, Reading