Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
Source: Prose and Poetry
“In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.”
— W. H. Auden, book The Dyer's Hand
"Reading", p. 9
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
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