In fact, literature people can't help but feel reassured when they turn or swipe to the front matter of Breaking the Page and find not the copyright page (Meyers has put that at the back) but this quote from Virginia Woolf in "How Should One Read a Book?", a sublime essay set near the end of the 1932 The Second Common Reader.
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