And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between human beings. . . . The imagination is the mother of pity, the mother of generosity, the mother of every possible virtue. It is by the imagination that you are enabled to put yourself in the place of another. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.4535, Library of Alexandria
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