We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supre…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims, p.107, Harvard University Press
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