“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

—  Edith Wharton

"Vesalius in Zante (1564)", in North American Review (November 1902), p. 631
Variant: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.

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