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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes
behind him.  Let him value his hands and feet, he has but one pair.
So he has but one future, and that is already predetermined in his
lobes and described in that little fatty face, pig-eye, and squat
form.  All the privilege and all the legislation of the world cannot
meddle or help to make a poet or a prince of him.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Fate", p. 334

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