"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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