Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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