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Dinner Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when…
- A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised…
- Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
- We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in…
- Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of…
- Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
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