All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet

“Powers and Laws of Thought,” Natural History of Intellect, Lecture 1, Harvard (1870, Spring)
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