A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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