If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). Representative Men: Seven Lectures, p.32
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