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βA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
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What does this quotation mean?
Emerson attacks rigid consistency, not the ordinary value of keeping promises or reasoning carefully.
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Source: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson , Self-Reliance
Edition: Edna H. L. Turpin selection
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