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Which of the following quotes appears in Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay 'Self-Reliance'?
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- 1'We reject our thought as a work of genius which comes back majestically to alienate us.'
- 2'A work of genius is a unique idea that is out of the reach of a common man so as to alienate him.'
- 3'In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.'✓
- 4'Every rejected thought comes back to us to alienate our thought process.'
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'In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.'
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