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• Solitude is impractible, and society fatal. -- Emerso
• One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. -- Goethe
• Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions.
  The surest poison is time. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Society and Solitude...
• Can anyone remember when times were not hard, and money not scarce?
  -- Emerson, Society And Solitude...
• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Society and Solitude' 1870...
• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Among my Books, First Series, Dryde...
• Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions.
  The surest poison is time. -- Emerson, "Society and Solitude...
• The great merit of society is to make one appreciate solitude.
  -- Charles Chincholles, "Reflections on the Art of Life...
• In solitude, where we are least alone.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, Stanza 90...