Quote#Books & Reading
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary…
Quote byMary Augusta Ward · 1851–1920
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Writer's Recollections (1918), Ch. I, p. 2.
English (original)
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject matter, when one comes to write about it.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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