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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to
accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given;
forgetful that that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in
libraries when they wrote these books.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar", p. 67

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