Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations, p.157
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Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations, p.157

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