Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt a…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.134, Harvard University Press
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