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A beautiful friendship
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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10:36pm July 16 2025
Over the entrance to the librarian's office in Sterling Memorial Library: Un livre est un ami qui ne change jamais, or "A book is a friend who never changes," a sentiment frequently used on bookplates going back at least as far as the French playwright René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773–1844). What books do you count as unchanging friends and return to again and again? 
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