For let me tell you that since my arrival in Rome I have re-established friendly relations with some old friends - my books. I had ceased associating with them, not because I found them annoying but because they made me slightly ashamed. For having plunged into the middle of the most turbulent happenings in highly untrustworthy company, I felt I had not sufficiently followed the advice the books had given me. But they forgive me . . .
-Marcus Tullius Cicero, from a letter written to Marcus Terentius Varro in 46 B.C.
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