The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused.…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.275, Penguin
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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.275, Penguin

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