Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust,…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.1084, Library of America
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