Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

I do not like books. I believe I have the smallest library of any literary man in London, and I have no wish to increase it. I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudie's, and it makes me very angry if anyone gives me one for my private library.


Ramblings In Cheapside (1890)


I do not like books. I believe I have the smallest library of any literary man in London, and I have no wish to increase it. I keep my books at the...

I do not like books. I believe I have the smallest library of any literary man in London, and I have no wish to increase it. I keep my books at the...

I do not like books. I believe I have the smallest library of any literary man in London, and I have no wish to increase it. I keep my books at the...

I do not like books. I believe I have the smallest library of any literary man in London, and I have no wish to increase it. I keep my books at the...