There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the si…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). Self-Reliance and Other Essays, p.6, Courier Corporation
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