Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. Wh…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.80, Harvard University Press
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.80, Harvard University Press

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