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The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas the...
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The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of...
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never...
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The...
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form...
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due...
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to...
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the...
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Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...