Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1853

It is a great loss to lose the confidence of a class; yet the scholar, the thinker goes on losing the ear and love of class after class who once sustained him.

At Lenox,' Miss congratulated herself that had settled down into sensible opin- ions and practices, like her neighbors. I asked her if she thought her two sisters,…

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