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Published Monday, 21 December 2015 by Piper Haywood — Emerson on contradiction vs. persecution

Emerson on contradiction vs. persecution

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Emerson in His Journals. Ed. Joel Porte. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1982. 206, entry dated Nov. 8, 1838.

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