A Latter-day Bluestocking

For the love of reading

Tag: 19th Century

Quote of the Day: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803–1882

Quote of the Day: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807–1882

Wisdom from Walden

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“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”  Henry David Thoreau, 1817–1862

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