In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. ✨ R…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). Letters and Social Aims, p.143
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). Emerson in His Journals, p.377, Harvard University Press

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). Letters and Social Aims, p.143

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