​"If a book come from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts.—All art and authorcraft are of small account to that."
—Thomas Carlyle, 19th-century.
A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891. p. 47.

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​"You see they've every one [of these written texts] got something to say to us.  Every one's going to talk and be like a living thing these long nights and days when there's no one else to make a sound."
—Mrs. I.T. Hopkins, 1887.
Arrow Head Light, 1887, p. 59.

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A Commonplace Book of Victorian Advice, Wit and Observations on Life

​"Among the earliest ambitions to be excited in clerks, workmen, journeymen, and indeed, among all that are struggling up in life from nothing to something, is that of owning, and constantly adding to, a library of good books."
—Anonymous, 1889.
Zion's Home Monthly, January 15, 1889. p. 198.