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"In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking, In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking." "An American Scholar" by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative; we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow." The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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"the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck, the thing itself and not the myth the drowned face always staring toward the sun the evidence of damage worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty the ribs of the disaster curving their assertion among the tentative haunters." "Diving Into the Wreck" by Adriene Rich |
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