Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design - and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design - and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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