🔳 RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Died on this day, in 1882
“The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language"
~ from “Nature,” 1836
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Mmmmm. . . I get his context (& I love Emerson), but as an absolute the sentence sounds rather reactionary
'You taught me language; and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you / For learning me your language!'
~Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1610-11