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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

Source: Jornal entry for 1849; The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 11; ed. by A. W. Plumstead and William H. Gilman, 1975.
-- 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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