A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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