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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.
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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
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Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
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The pest of society is egotists.
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