Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.202, Graphic Arts Books
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