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Coleridge is gone to Devonshire, and I was going to say I am alone, but that the sight of Shakespeare, and Spenser, and Milton, and the Bible, on my table, and Castanheda, and Barros, and Osorio at my elbow, tell me I am in the best of all possible company.—R. Southey (Letter to G. C. Bedford).

Worthy books

Are not companions—they are solitudes;

We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

P. J. Bailey. Festus.