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"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature ... and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."

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About Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and philosopher, and a leading voice of New England Transcendentalism. His works, including Nature and Self-Reliance, influenced American literature and modern thought.

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