"I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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