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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be,
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As no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its owns books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
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― The American Scholar: Self-Reliance, Compensation
― The American Scholar: Self-Reliance, Compensation
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