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«If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.»
«The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.»
«The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.»
«We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.»
«In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.»
«It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.»
«Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.»
«The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.»
«Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.»
«The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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dishonored, illustrious, inflicted, lash, martyr
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