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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist on yourself; never imitate.  Your own gift you can present
every moment with the cumulative force a whole life's cultivation; but
of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half
posession.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance", p. 44

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