Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who ca…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848, p.155, Harvard University Press
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