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fountainhead
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Definition:1. a river's source, such as a spring; origin2. an origin of creativity or knowledge3. a source of abundant knowledge, information, etc.
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PROFESSOR RUBEK. You were no model to me. You were the fountainhead of my achievement.
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you will now take your money affairs entirely into your own hands, and you will draw from Wemmick one hundred and twenty-five pounds per quarter, until you are in communication with the fountain-head, and no longer with the mere agent.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Arg. My reason is, that seeing myself infirm and sick, I wish to have a son-in-law and relatives who are doctors, in order to secure their kind assistance in my illness, to have in my family the fountain-head of those remedies which are necessary to me, and to be within reach of consultations and prescriptions.
Molière. The Imaginary Invalid
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The only fountainhead which had once been near and which had once sung loudly within him, now murmured softly in the distance.
Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Translated by Hilda Rosner), p.76 (1951)
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There was one resource left me yet. I would go to the fountain-head. I would call forthwith upon the General himself, and demand, in explicit terms, a solution of this abominable piece of mystery.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Man That Was Used Up (1839)
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