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together as many books as you want but none for mere Show. You any it is more honest to be expensive upon books than upon fine vases & Pictures. Every thing is trong that is excessive. Would you pardon a man that fitted upon his study with cedar & ivory & then slept among his books? the books & titles of which [[deletion]] books [[/deletion]] pleased him most, among the most slothfull & indolent you will see all the [[deletion]] e [[/deletion]] Historians & [[deletion]] Orators [[/deletion]] [[addition]] Orators [[/addition]] & their book-cases built up to the very top of the room. In like manner the works of the [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] [[addition]] sacred [[/addition]] writers only to set off and add on the sides of their Rooms [[image]]