Quote #82
All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
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- I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
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