Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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