Sunday, August 26, 2018

 

Shame

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, Vol. IV: 1836-1838 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), p. 371 (from the year 1837):
Then I hear that my friend has finished Aristophanes, Plato, Cicero, and Grotius, and I take shame to myself.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 3:59 AM


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