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It is to have a week without letters andwithout visitors, with no work to do, and no hours, either for rising upor lying down, and to spend the week in a library, his own, of course, bypreference, opening out by a level window into an old-fashioned gardenwhere the roses are in full bloom, and to wander as he pleases fromflower to flower where the spirit of the books and the fragrance of theroses mingle in one delight. Times there are when he would like to hold a meeting of bookmen, each ofwhom ...should be a mighty hunter, and he would dare to invite Cosmo Medici, who was as keen about books as he was about commerce, and according toGibbon used to import Indian spices and Greek books by the same vessel, and that admirable Bishop of Durham who was as joyful on reaching Parisas the Jewish pilgrim was when he went to Sion, because of the books thatwere there. "O Blessed God of Gods, what a rush of the glow of Pleasurerejoiced our hearts, as often as we visited Paris, the Paradise of theWorld!
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