In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, an…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated), p.2797, Delphi Classics
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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated), p.2797, Delphi Classics

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