"The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause."
— Applause

January 1, 1970

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address (July 15, 1838); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 37.