We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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