A fig for your precious society with its.... : Quote by E. Norman Torry

“ A fig for your precious society with its bridge parties, its inane chatter, its cheap mentality; its dances and vulgar banquets; its snobbery and cheap pretension. The humblest library can show you upon a single shelf better society and far more select company than all the drawing-rooms of Europe, America, and South Africa. ”

E. Norman Torry
  • From : Round My Library Fire: A Book about Books
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