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By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
- Source
- Self-Reliance, in Essays, 1841 · Self-Reliance, p. 41
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- Internet Archive (University of California Libraries scan of the James Munroe edition)
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From the essay "Self-Reliance" in Essays, the first series (Boston: James Munroe and Co., 1841). This is the text of the 1841 first edition.