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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
         

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.


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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
         



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