Silent Era

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“A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“... we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom ...”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)