Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.148, Harvard University Press
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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.148, Harvard University Press

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