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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
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