The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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