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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.  With consistency a
great soul has simply nothing to do.  He may as well concern himself
with his shadow on the wall.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance", p. 30

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