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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
Approximate author period: c. 1848 AD · industrial
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- Alexander Smith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1848 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 78 · printed citation: Alexander Smith (On the Writing of Essays). · compiler notes excluded
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