“The clergy are as like as peas.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
"The Preacher", in The Index: A Weekly Paper (Feb. 5, 1880) pp. 62–3. Originally written as a parlor-lecture to some Divinity students, in 1867; afterwards enlarged from earlier writings, and read in its present form at the Divinity Chapel, Cambridge, MA, May 5, 1879
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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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