"Quotation and Originality," Letters and Social Aims (1876) - Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
“Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims (1876)

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