I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches

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