Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impressio…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). Self-Reliance and Other Essays, p.20, Courier Corporation
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