The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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... RALPH WALDO EMERSON , Journal , December 31 , 1843 The best business you can go into you will find on your father's farm or in his workshop . If you have no family or friends to aid you , and no prospect open to you there , turn your ...
... RALPH WALDO EMERSON , Journal , December 31 , 1843 The best business you can go into you will find on your father's farm or in his workshop . If you have no family or friends to aid you , and no prospect open to you there , turn your ...
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... RALPH WALDO EMERSON , Journal , October , 1861 A man of no conversation should smoke . RALPH WALDO EMERSON I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do and gets less'n I do . ABRAHAM LINCOLN , quoted by Sandburg ...
... RALPH WALDO EMERSON , Journal , October , 1861 A man of no conversation should smoke . RALPH WALDO EMERSON I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do and gets less'n I do . ABRAHAM LINCOLN , quoted by Sandburg ...
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... RALPH WALDO EMERSON , English Traits I saw everywhere in the country proofs of sense and spirit , and success of ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON , Ibid . Steam is almost an Englishman . I do not know but they will send him to Parliament next ...
... RALPH WALDO EMERSON , English Traits I saw everywhere in the country proofs of sense and spirit , and success of ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON , Ibid . Steam is almost an Englishman . I do not know but they will send him to Parliament next ...
Contents
IN GENERAL | 9 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
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