Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer wher…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.180, University of Missouri Press
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