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 mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
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.