I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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