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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Note 110 — COMPENSATION.[93]

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The proverb is quoted by Horace, Epistles, I, x. 24:

"Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret."

A similar thought is expressed by Juvenal, Seneca, Cicero, and Aristophanes.

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