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  • To clothe the fiery thought
    In simple words succeeds,
    For still the craft of genius is
    To mask a king in weeds.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.85, U of Nebraska Press
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