Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.240
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