“But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
“This is a long book, not only in pages.”
— John Rawls, book A Theory of Justice
Preface, pg. viii
A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999)
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