There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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