What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). Letters and Social Aims, p.161
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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). Letters and Social Aims, p.161

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