Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.


Representative Men (1850)


I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.