What is poetry The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
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