September 07, 2004

book borrowers

Book borrowers--

Those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834), quoted in
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
(2nd edition), p. 306

Posted by jonsligh at September 7, 2004 01:56 PM
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Which reminds me - when are you going to return my copy of "On the Imitation of Mandrills"?

Posted by: apple at September 8, 2004 09:13 AM
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