More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Letters and Social Aims (1876)
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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
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.