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“If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly, but humbly and truly. It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are noble, I will love
you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions.
If you are true,
but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this
not selfishly, but humbly and truly.
It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.