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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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
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.