 I will write it, — that there is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunderstroke, I...  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 341by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903Full view - About this book
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...the loss of that which is infinitely more precious, viz., health, and even life itself. Good Advice. There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred,...all rational mortals, namely — their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder... | |
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