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Quote by Ross MacDonald
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. – Ross MacDonald

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God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. – W.E. Channing

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