Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. ✨ Ralph Wald…

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871, p.94, University of Georgia Press
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