"Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise."

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