originality

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• Feb 9 Your Plot of Ground Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; t...
• Jan 24 What the Bees Know Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 'Of the Education of Children' (trans. John Florio) Even as bees pillage here and there from flowers, but afterward make honey, which is all theirs; it ...
• Jan 18 The Labour of Tradition T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate...