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There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. i cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There Was Never A Man Born So

Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. i cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.
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