QuoteQuest“Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.”
Verification
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
"Walter Savage Landor", from The Dial, xii (1841)
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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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