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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.
         

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.


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