Thomas De Quincey Quote
Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.
Letters of De Quincey, the English Opium-eater, to a Young Man Whose Education Has Been Neglected (ed. 1843)
