FW: Mysterious quote identified

["Paulson, Barbara" <BPaulson@xxxxxxx>]

It's actually Grahame, he of Wind in the Willows.

Barbara


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From: John L. Sharpe III [mailto:codex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
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Subject: Mysterious quote identified


Thanks to Bob Maxwell robert_maxwell@xxxxxxx and SHARP-I the mysterious =
quote about bookbinders is from Kenneth Graham, PAGAN PAPERS (London: =
John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1898), pp. 36-37, in the essay "Non libri =
sed liberi" (pp. 29-39). =20

The opening sentence of the paragraph which encloses the quotation =
reads:  "Of a truth, the foes of the book-lover are not few.  One of the =
most insidious, because he cometh at first in friendly, helpful guise, =
is the bookbinder.  Not in that he bindeth books--for the fair binding =
is the final crown and flower of painful achievement--but because he =
bindeth not...."  The paragraph concludes "...But when the deed is done, =
and the floor strewn with fragments of binder--still the books remain =
unbound.  You have made all that horrid mess for nothing, and the weary =
path has to be trodden over again.  As a general rule, the man in the =
habit of murdering bookbinders, though he performs a distinct service to =
society, only wastes his own time and takes no personal advantage."=20

John Sharpe
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