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"The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — "Let there be truth between us two forevermore"."
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Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, jo — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
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