No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from kno…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.353
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.353

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