Tag: foolish consistency

• The Virtue of Inconsistency

  My favorite quotation of all time was made by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I loved it the first time I read it, back when I was a literature major in college: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” I always thought “hobgoblin” was a fun-to-say word – almost onomatopoeic – the sound it makes…

  Marian

  April 29, 2014

  Reflections

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