“ A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroism (1841). copy citation
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Source | Heroism |
Topic | dress |
Date | 1841 |
Language | English |
Reference | in "Essays: First Series" |
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Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays:_First_Series/Heroism |
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“But he loves it for its elegancy, not for its austerity. It seems not worth his while to be solemn, and denounce with bitterness flesh-eating or wine-drinking, the use of tobacco, or opium, or tea, or silk, or gold. A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water, and said of wine, — "It is a noble, generous liquor, and we should be humbly thankful for it, but, as I remember, water was made before it."”
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