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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.

Source: The American Scholar, lecture, 31 Aug 1837, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard University; in Nature, Addresses and Lectures, 1849.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.

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