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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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Emerson means that genuine truth is more attractive than pretending to love or fake emotions. He also suggests that true kindness needs a certain strength or firmness to be real, otherwise it lacks value.

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