• I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.357, Harvard University Press