Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders,…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1881). Representative men. Society and solitude
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