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Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

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

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.



Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.

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