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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times
with two several men, but let all three of you come together and you
shall not have one new and hearty word.  Two may talk and one may
hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere
and searching sort.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship", p. 110

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