1
The books–the generous friends who met me without suspicion–the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.Wilkie Collins
2
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!Wilkie Collins