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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
The studious class...
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The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption --pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.
Source: Representative Men, ch. 4, Montaigne, 1850.
-- 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.