Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Quote of the Day (Ralph Waldo Emerson, on the Lack of Secrets in Society)


“There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life (1860)

Just imagine: He wrote this nearly 150 years before Facebook and Twitter!

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