"The older one gets the more one clings to books just because one has had them a long time. Also the hard experience of four moves of my library, between 1930 and 1972, has warned me that very soon after discarding one of the least useful [it] will suddenly be one that you want for some purpose (and will prob. be one now unobtainable)." - #334a, From a letter to Lord Halsbury (probably May 1972). - The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Revised and Expanded Edition.
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