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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Quoted in Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire, ch. 16 (1995).

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Encyclopedia:

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
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Salem on Literature:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Literary Criticism:

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