• Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
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1. attraction
2. satellite
3. instead
4. warped
5. system
6. clean

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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