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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.
         

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.


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