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1 " A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think. "
― Emily Dickinson , The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
2 " A precious, mouldering pleasure 't isTo meet an antique bookIn just the dress his century wore;A privilege, I think,His venerable hand to take,And warming in our own,A passage back, or two, to makeTo times when he was young.His quaint opinions to inspect,His knowledge to unfoldOn what concerns our mutual mind,The literature of old... "
3 " Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth. "
― Oscar Wilde
4 " A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be. "
