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If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
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Other world? There is no other world here or nowhere is the whole fact.
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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
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