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To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

Approximate author period: c. 1653 AD · renaissance

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Author or tradition
Richard Baxter
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1653 AD · renaissance
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1615 to 1691; Wikidata Q680070, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q680070 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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