• We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
  

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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