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  • a portion, 'it has its obvious advantages: but it is, after all and at the best, a very primitive device: and, for my part, I consider it the deadliest invention of all for robbing the book of outward resemblance to literature and converting it to the aspect of a gazetteer -- a _biblion a-biblion, _ as Charles Lamb puts it.

    On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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