Friday, September 20, 2024

No boaster and buffoons

Our America has a bad name for superficialness.
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons,
but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

                    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fate

 

 

 

 

 

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