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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are
more himself than he is.  They receive the soul as he also receives,
but they more.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet", p. 196

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