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The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Address Delivered in Concord on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, August 1, 1844,” Miscellanies (1883, repr. 1903).

Categories: Essayist, Philosopher, Slavery

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