"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."
"It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough."
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Source: James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1503, Delphi Classics
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