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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.
         



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