“ It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ”
Source: The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Categories: Philosophy World Opinion
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