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

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


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