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I cannot have a sufficiency of books. Indeed, I have more than I should... Books give utter delight: they talk with us... and are bound to us by live… - Petrarch
" "I cannot have a sufficiency of books. Indeed, I have more than I should... Books give utter delight: they talk with us... and are bound to us by lively and witty intimacy, and do not just insinuate themselves alone on their readers but present the names of others, and each one creates a longing for another.
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Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist. Petrarch and Dante are considered the fathers of the Renaissance.
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It's true your smile, mild and full of peace, retains the power to calm my passion down and free me from the flames that torture me while I'm intent and fixed on watching you; but then my spirits are transformed to ice because we part and those two fatal stars direct their movements elsewhere, leaving me.
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