Comments on hacks and hunters
Lida Fleitmann Bloodgood · 1921
ing that has not been thought before, and we can only try to think it again."Who was it that said, ''To say a thing that everybody else has said before, as quietly as if nobody had ever said it-that is originality."And I fear that that is the only kind of originality I shall lay claim to.If by expressing simply and clearly facts well known to experienced horsemen, I can inspire the noviceand particularly those of my own sex-to attain a greater degree of proficiency; if I can create in natures, in which it now lies dormant, a love of horse and hound, of sport and of God's great out-of-doors, I shall feel myself amply repaid.After all, as Oliver Wendell Holmes tells us, it is true that ''The best of a book is not in the thought it contains, but the thought it suggests, just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our own hearts."