“The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation. ‘Enter freely and of your own free will! Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!'”
Text from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, photo of Bran Castle in Romania.
Not, in fact, a very good book, in my estimation. But certainly a cultural milestone.
I’ll go with that, but I’ve only read a bit of it.