But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.


History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar (ed. 1901)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.