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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Other world? There is no other world here or nowhere is the whole fact.
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
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