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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes:

Ocupation: Essayist

Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Birthday: May 25

Death: April 27

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

topic: Children, Names, Savages

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