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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. ✨ 1860 The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.
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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters, p.159, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.
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