Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

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