"We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so much reading. it is rather when we gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth--'tis then we get the right good from the book."

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About Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era best known for Sonnets from the Portuguese and Aurora Leigh. She was among the most prominent English-language poets of her time.

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