Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would! ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). The Heart of Emerson's Journals, p.55, Courier Corporation
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