I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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