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Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
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Essayist
Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Vain
Fantastic
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Semblance
Fashion
Frivolous
Violence
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