Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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