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→‎Famous quotations: liked by chess champs: Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
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A child prodigy having tremendous literary talent, Emerson graduated from Harvard University at the age of 18, and is well-known today for his many quips and insightful concise quotations.
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→‎Famous quotations: "Money often costs too much."
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January 21, 2023
→‎Analysis of his works: An automated analysis of Emerson's 62 works, published between 1838 and 1956 and filling 11,866 pages, found that these were his most commonly used words
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Emerson's works are estimated to total 1,176,289, containing a remarkably diverse number of 30,507 words.
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Emerson has 125 express references to "life" in merely one volume of his "The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 7 (Society and Solitude)
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When Emerson was about 30 and after his first wife had tragically passed away, he remarried and settled in Concord, Massachusetts, which is located about 15 miles west of Harvard and Cambridge. He became known as the "Sage of Concord" and his original
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Emerson was a critic of the intellectual elite at Harvard, and instead of joining its faculty Emerson instead earned his living as a popular public speaker, talented poet, and fabulous writer. His many pithy quotes continue to be widely repeated to this
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→‎Famous quotations: added quote: "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
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May 28, 2018
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→‎Famous quotations: Emerson: "Quotation confesses inferiority"
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→‎Famous quotations: Emerson: "Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere."
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is well-known today for his many quips and insightful quotes
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July 6, 2017
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added quotation section and got it started
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