Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead o…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.90, Harvard University Press
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