We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dol…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). Self-Reliance and Other Essays, p.76, Courier Corporation
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