The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of citie…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.16, Harvard University Press
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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.16, Harvard University Press

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