"There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us."

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Source : Sir Egerton Brydges, Robert Pearse Gillies (1813). “The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical, and sentimental essays”, p.143

Egerton Brydges

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