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Ralph Waldo Emerson: We are too...

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Source: Journals, 1909-1914, entry for 7 Jun 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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