Ralph Waldo

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    The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Whither went the lovely hoyden?
    Disappeared in blessed wife;
    Servant to a wooden cradle,
    Living in a baby’s life.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)