Ralph Waldo

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    The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)