Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). Letters and Social Aims, p.160
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Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). Letters and Social Aims, p.160

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