"Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as "glittering generalities," have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, in a lecture "Books" (1864); the quoted phrase "glittering generalities" had been used by Rufus Choate to describe the declaration of the rights of man in the Preamble to the Constitution, in The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1903-4) Vol. 10, p. 88, note 1
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