Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.134, Harvard University Press
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