"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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