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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the centuries.
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the centuries.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1842 AD · industrial
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1842 AD · industrial
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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