A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.107
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.107

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