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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. — Elizabeth Drew
- Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. — Elizabeth Drew
- Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. — Elizabeth Drew