Crystal City - Books

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“I do not hesitate to read ... all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable—any real insight or broad human sentiment.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“My books and instruments shall be my company,
On them to look and practise by myself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

““The life of reason”Ma phrase once used by people who thought that reading books would deliver them from their passions.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)