Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.12, Penguin

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