"People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad."

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson