"Education," Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883) - Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The opium of custom, whereof all drink and many go mad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
“Education,” Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)

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