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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.
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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.
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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
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It is said, no man can write but one book and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
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Knowledge exists to be imparted.
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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
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