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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its end which stands related to all things which is the mean of many extremes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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