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Walter Pater - Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral...
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. (Walter Pater)

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

Walter Pater

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