I found this nice piece at the end of a long rainy day full of chatty customers with lots of questions to ask me and book-related mysteries for me to solve.
".....bookselling is the best possible training in humility. There's nothing like being surrounded by thousands of books that one has not read, and trying to answer impossible questions from customers on every subject under the sun, from fly fishing to physics, to reveal the full extent of one's own ignorance. At the end of the day, I feel both tired and stupid. It's like being young again."
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