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Shakespeare , and Dubuque supplied themselves with coffee , sugar , and necessary vessels ; and their operations are a type of what went on through all the cars . From archaic times down through all the length of the patriarchal regime it has been the office of the women to prepare and administer these luxuries , and it has been the perquisite of the men of gentle birth and breeding to consume them . The game was carried on through all the first ages of the world , and is still kept up in many parts of it ; and it is impossible to describe the wars , massacres , horrors , miseries , and crimes , to which it gave colour , sanctity , and sway . When one considers how reading seeps in through all the cracks and crannies of our days , what power there is in books to determine our views of life , and how cheaply these possibilities lie at every man ’ s hand , it is plain that the quality of a man ’ s reading is one of his foremost responsibilities .