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# William Lyon Phelps - 1933

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##  Quotes by William Lyon Phelps - 1933

> [“But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lyon-phelps-1933/but-in-a-private-library-you-can-at-any-moment-converse-with-socrates/)

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