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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man
Drawn from what Ralph Waldo Emerson said
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist and lecturer (1803 to 1882)
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson.
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↗Essays, First Series (1841)gutenberg.org
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