Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originali…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). Emerson's Literary Criticism, p.163, U of Nebraska Press
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