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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1194
AUTHOR: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)
QUOTATION: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
ATTRIBUTION: RALPH WALDO EMERSON,Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series (vol. 2 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson), p. 57 (1903).
SUBJECTS: Mind