There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. ✨ Ralph Waldo…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.229, Harvard University Press
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