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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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