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Wendell Phillips

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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
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Lecture: The Lost Arts, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 
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