“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson

1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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