普通读者（英文版）

普通读者（英文版）:
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万能的上帝看到腋下夹着书的读者走近时，只能转过身来，不无欣羡地对彼得说：“瞧，这些人不需要奖赏，我们这里没有什么东西可以给他们，他们一生爱读书。”
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The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf
　　
　　Preface
　　
　　Some of these papers appeared originally in the Times Literary Supplement, the Athenaeum, the Nation and Athanaeum, the New Statesman, the London Mercury, the Dial (New York); the New Republic (New York), and I have to thank the editors for allowing me to reprint them here. Some are based upon articles written for various newspapers, while others appear now for the first time.
　　
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　　The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf
　　
　　The Common Reader
　　
　　There is a sentence in Dr. Johnson’s Life of Gray which might well be written up in all those rooms, too humble to be called libraries, yet full of books, where the pursuit of reading is carried on by private people. “. . . I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.” It defines their qualities; it dignifies their aims; it bestows upon a pursuit which devours a great deal of time, and is yet apt to leave behind it nothing very substantial, the sanction of the great man’s approval.