Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history... The Companion: After-dinner Table-talk - Page 80by Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
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