Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Christopher Morley
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There are many things in this world that are not dangerous, but you wouldn’t know it. The explosion of a bomb is one of them. There are so many things in the world that are dangerous, but you don’t know it. A bookshop is one of them.

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

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