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‘T is the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.

Source:(Fields, Osgood & Co., ed. 1870), Essay XI. Success, Page 264
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (Society and Solitude Quotes)
  • Book: Society and Solitude
  • Writer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1870
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