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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/448437.Emerson_Selected_Essays?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Emerson: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1174865332m/448437.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/448437.Emerson_Selected_Essays?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Emerson: Selected Essays</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12080.Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16160002?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>One of the great tragedies of my grad school experience was that I read so many excellent books so quickly that I can't remember much of them except that they were good. Someone with my handwriting has written thoughtful comments all over the margins of this book, but I couldn't tell you the first thing about Emerson except perhaps that beauty and nature are good, and one should be true to oneself. Did I get that right, Mr. Emerson? <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/906691?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>