Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.364
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.364

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