The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to kno…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
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