WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:23:42 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg catching – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- “Solitude and Society,” Atlantic Monthly (1857-12) https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/33899/ https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/33899/#respond Tue, 24 May 2016 13:38:27 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=33899 For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
“Solitude and Society,” Atlantic Monthly (1857-12)

Paraphrase of Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2, Act 5, sc. 1: "It is certain that either wife bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another: therefore let men take heed of their company." Sometimes misattributed to Francis Bacon. ]]> https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/33899/feed/ 0 33899