More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Essays
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Letters and Social Aims (1876)
People/Ralph Waldo Emerson/Quote

A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Society and Solitude (1870), Art
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.