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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
English (Source)
What great wealth there can be in a small select library, in which is found the community of wise and worthy authors, in due order, who have been selected in the civilized countries of the world over thousands of years by their individual studies and wisdom! Because of their aloofness and unapproachability, they might have been impatient for us to disturb them in their absorption and preoccupation, or their general circumstances would have made conversation impossible. But the thought, which they did not reveal even to their best friend, is recorded here in an understandable form for us, strangers of other centuries.