Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the ru…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). The Annotated Emerson, p.166, Harvard University Press
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Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). The Annotated Emerson, p.166, Harvard University Press

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