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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Names, Praise, Results
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.232, Harvard University Press
We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.