"It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports."
— Quality

January 1, 1970

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, speech, January 1842, at the Masonic Temple in Boston, repr. in The Dial (1843) and Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (1849).