No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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The gentleman is a man of truth. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.343, Modern Library
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed

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