Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say wi…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.26, Graphic Arts Books
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