Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who d…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871, p.217, University of Georgia Press
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