In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations, p.378
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