All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the key to the man, to the woman straightaway all their past words and actions lie in light before us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the key to the man, to the woman straightaway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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