There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may n…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.13, Harvard University Press
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.13, Harvard University Press

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