In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventio…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.452
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