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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A certain awkwardness...

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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

Source: In Instant Quotation Dictionary, by Donald O. Bolander, 1979.
-- 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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