There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II, p.123
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