Virginia Woolf quote: What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or ...

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

~ Virginia Woolf ~

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