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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Nature, ch. 4 (1836, revised and repr. 1849).

Categories: Essayist, Language, Philosopher

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