The people are to be taken in very small doses.
Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
The less government we have the better.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.