Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. ✨ Ra…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated), p.2268, Delphi Classics
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