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While you converse with lords and dukes,

I have their betters here—my books;

Fixed in an elbow chair at ease

I choose my companions as I please.

I'd rather have one single shelf

Than all my friends, except yourself;

For after all that can be said

Our best acquaintance are the dead.

T. Sheridan.