Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.1003, Library of America
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