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"Quotation and Originality," Letters and Social Aims (1876) - Emerson, Ralph Waldo | WIST Quotations
Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest or private addition so rare and insignificant, -- and this commonly on the ground of other reading or hearing, -- that, in a large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old…