Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. ✨ R…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.478, Library of America
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