The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson in Journals (1839)
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson in Journals (1824)
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