This quote from Emerson's "Self-Reliance," and it's about the importance of originality and trusting one's own instinct in the process of becoming educated. The person who truly wants to become educated does not try to imitate others or envy others; instead, as Emerson writes, trying to be like others is ignorant, as it means that the person has not realized that true greatness lies in cultivating what is unique about oneself. Imitating others...
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