Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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