If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.50, Harvard University Press
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.50, Harvard University Press

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