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Essays: Second Series Quotes

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair’s breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Source:(James Munroe and Co., ed. 1844), Essay II. Experience, Page 72
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essays: Second Series Quotes)
  • Book: Essays: Second Series
  • Writer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1844
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