Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. (John Dewey)

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

John Dewey

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