It Is One Thing To Purloin Finely-tempered Steel, And Another To Take A Pound Of Literary Old Iro

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It is one thing to purloin finely-tempered steel, and another to
take a pound of literary old iron, and convert it in the furnace
of one's own mind into a hundred watchsprings, worth each a thousand
times as much as the iron. When genius borrows, it borrows grandly,
giving to the borrowed matter, a life and beauty it lacked before.

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