There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.241, University of Georgia Press
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