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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.77, Penguin
He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.