• If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.

  W. M. Thackeray
  Indian-born, British novelist 1811-1863
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1. interesting
2. meanings
3. private
4. insipid
5. volumes
6. become

If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader. by : W. M. Thackeray

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