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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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