What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my frien…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). The Journals
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