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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our intellectual and active powers increase with our affection.  The
scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not
furnish him with one good thought or happy expression; but it is
necessary to write a letter to a friend, and forthwith troops of
gentle thoughts invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship", p. 101

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