I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.262, Library of America
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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.262, Library of America

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