quote · Words worth keeping
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 1842 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1803–1882); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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