At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, “How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.'' -- Miss Bingley, in Jane Austen’s, Pride and Prejudice –
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