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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
         

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.


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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
         



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