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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 48 · quotation 19 · Emerson · Essays. Of Nature.
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