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“Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of…” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.”

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