Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
source: Essays, Second Series "The Poet" (1844)
topic: Brilliant, Has Beens, Limestone, Tropes
