The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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