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Monday, November 13, 2023

Ralph Waldo Emerson 3


The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. 

In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. 

—from Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Divinity College Address 



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