Famous People in the Bookshop

"Her eyes were the better instead of the worse for the exertion to which he had subjected them on the previous day. The bracing air of Ramsgate was all that was wanting to complete the success of the operation... "Let her use her eyes for two goot hours every day," said Grosse, at parting. "She may do what she likes with them--except that she must not peep into books, or take up pens, till I come to you at Ramsgate." - Wilkie Collins, Poor Miss Finch

Cockney Bible in the Bookshop

"Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books; 

Or surely you'll grow double...

...Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife: 

Come, hear the woodland linnet, 

How sweet his music! on my life, 

There's more of wisdom in it." -

The Tables Turned William Wordsworth