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— Ralph Waldo Emerson"The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition."
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This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]
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