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We like cool people, who neither hope nor fear too much, but seem to have many strings to their bow, and can survive the blow well enough if stock should rise or fall, if parties should be broken up, if their money or their family should be dispersed; who can stand a slander very well; indeed on whom events make little or no impression, and who can face death with firmness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882
Lectures and Biographical Sketches [1883], "Aristocracy"
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