Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can rec…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.79, Penguin
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