Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.'s quote

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. -

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