Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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