Let there be worse cotton and better men. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rober…

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Let there be worse cotton and better men. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures, p.121, Harvard University Press
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Let there be worse cotton and better men. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures, p.121, Harvard University Press

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