Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). Nature and Other Essays, p.153, Courier Corporation
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