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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.
         

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.


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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.
         



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