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