When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man r…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.410
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