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«Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.»
«Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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conform, conforms, conform to, prattle, prattles, prattling
«A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.»
«I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.»
«Our expenses are all for conformity.»
«Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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compel, good sense
«He is great who confers the most benefits.»
«We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.»
«Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.»
«Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.»
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