The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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