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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audi

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. – Thomas Carlyle

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