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Adventures in Contentment
·
David Grayson
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What
a
convenient
and
delightful
world
is
this
world
of
books!--if
you
bring
to
it
not
the
obligations
of
the
student,
or
look
upon
it
as
an
opiate
for
idleness,
but
enter
it
rather
with
the
enthusiasm
of
the
adventurer!
It
has
vast
advantages
over
the
ordinary
world
of
daylight,
of
barter
and
trade,
of
work
and
worry.
In
this
world
every
man
is
his
own
King--the
sort
of
King
one
loves
to
imagine,
not
concerned
in
such
petty
matters
as
wars
and
parliaments
and
taxes,
but
a
mellow
and
moderate
despot
who
is
a
true
patron
of
genius--a
mild
old
chap
who
has
in
his
court
the
greatest
men
and
women
in
the
world--and
all
of
them
vying
to
please
the
most
vagrant
of
his
moods!
Invite
any
one
of
them
to
talk,
and
if
your
highness
is
not
pleased
with
him
you
have
only
to
put
him
back
in
his
corner--and
bring
some
jester
to
sharpen
the
laughter
of
your
highness,
or
some
poet
to
set
your
faintest
emotion
to
music!
I
have
marked
a
certain
servility
in
books.
They
entreat
you
for
a
hearing:
they
cry
out
from
their
cases--like
men,
in
an
eternal
struggle
for
survival,
for
immortality.
"Take
me,"
pleads
this
one,
"I
am
responsive
to
every
mood.
You
will
find
in
me
love
and
hate,
virtue
and
vice.
I
don't
preach:
I
give
you
life
as
it
is.
You
will
find
here
adventures
cunningly
linked
with
romance
and
seasoned
to
suit
the
most
fastidious
taste.
Try
me."
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