Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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