Readers' Reward



Apparently from Virginia Woolf

‘I have sometimes dreamt that when the Day of Judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their reward – their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble – the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy, when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.”’

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