If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the a…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.73, Penguin
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