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No boat from America brought the other four continents more inspired writings than that Argosyan vessel which left her shores with the first published work of R.W. Emerson. There are some of his phrases which hold the memory as in a vice! And Emerson's sky is always blue. However, I was not always in this perfect concord with the Concord philosophy. When I first came to Emerson's pages, as a green and guileless youth, I found the epigrammatic nuts of his wisdom too hard for the teeth of my understanding. So I put him aside for a few years, and then, with stronger molars, successfully renewed the attack.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 103