Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher, p.21, Editora Dracaena
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