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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Wise men are...

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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Source: The Conduct of Life, Wealth, 1860.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.


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