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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every burned book...

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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Source: Essays, Compensation (First Series), 1841.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.


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