"We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates."
— Quotations

January 1, 1970

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality; in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 653-54.