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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
         

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.


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