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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Bücher sind die Hinterlassenschaften, die ein großes Genie der Menschheit hinterlässt, die von Generation zu Generation als Geschenke an die Nachkommen der Ungeborenen weitergegeben werden.

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