Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of th…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). Representative Men: Seven Lectures, p.21
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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). Representative Men: Seven Lectures, p.21

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