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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
         

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.


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