Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ✨ Ra…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.148, Harvard University Press
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