Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated), p.3128, Delphi Classics
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