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A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Tents, Should
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.240
A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.