Royal Alexandrian Library

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    Oh, I know my family’s not of royal blood, but you needn’t throw it in my face all the time.
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    A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;—read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
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    Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it ... that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)