“Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compensation (Primary source)
Emerson explores the law of compensation, suggesting that every action (cause) has a corresponding reaction (effect), meaning that there is no free lunch, but we get what we give.
“The law of nature is, do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”
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