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Quote by Kenko Yoshida
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, a

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare. – Kenko Yoshida

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