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Strangers Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.
- Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries…
- And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never…
- How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet…
- Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil…
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