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Sunday, July 27, 2008

the chief disgrace in the world...

It is not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be a unit; - not to be reckoned one character; - not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong...
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by Ashley at 11:20 AM
Labels: Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Topic: Anonymity, Topic: Character

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