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)

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

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