Emerson

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“You cannot have one well-bred man without a whole society of such. They keep each other up to any high point. Especially women;Mit requires a great many cultivated women,—saloons of bright, elegant, reading women, accustomed to ease and refinement, to spectacles, pictures, sculpture, poetry, and to elegant society, in order that you have one Madame de Staël.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)