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  • My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.

    Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”