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Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

 

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

 

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

 

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

 
 

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

 

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

 

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

 

Children are all foreigners.

 
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