The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.
-Washington Irving, The Sketch-Book, The Art of Book-Making, 1819-20
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