An idea from Self-Reliance and Other Essays

You read about a Roman general or a medieval saint, and part of you recognizes them. That is not a trick of good storytelling. Anything a person has thought or felt, you can think and feel too, because every person draws on the same mind.

From Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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