Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
Citations
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Clubs." Society and Solitude. Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870, p. 222.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.