• The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
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1. imbecility
2. majority
3. certain
4. eminent
5. moments
6. victims

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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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