Ralph Waldo Emerson: The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source i — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

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