We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Transcendentalism

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The American Scholar

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1837

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2946/2946-h/2946-h.htm

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