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Ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Text

[American, 1803 - 1882, Born in Boston. Began as a Unitarian minister, then a lecturer. Lived and died at Concord.]

1841 Self-Reliance
p.37 p.37 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds