"I have often suspected that it wasn't a love of reading that made Sam Leadbetter spend his scant shillings on that queer mixture of volumes. I feel it was more probably a love of books, a love of all that printed paper stood for: romance, tolerance, wisdom, culture... I even doubted if he had read more than half-a-dozen of the books he sacrificed so much to buy."
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