The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.


Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed (ed. 1911)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.