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Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
Diarist
Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Attention
Defined
Swift
Attentions
Society
Instinct
Instincts
Contrivance
Keep
Distance
Quietly
Shrewd
Men
Train
Somewhat
Resists
Waste
Fools
Wastes
Fool
Seldom
Sneer
Fashion
Manners
Detect
Sneers
Wise
Belong
Drops
Cynically

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