The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young or…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.344
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