Book Lust

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“A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals ... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)