I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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About Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), 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 prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and...

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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat their own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children are all foreigners.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A book of quotations… can never be complete.

—Robert M. Hamilton

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

—Groucho Marx

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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

—Marlene Dietrich

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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