Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Leaves from a Notebook, Ponkapog Papers (1903)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See Amazon.com.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Books that have become classics
“Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.” -
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