“A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of …”

“A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Title: Wikiquote: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Context

Power and Laws of Thought (c. 1870)

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson

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