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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books and I think no chair is so much needed.
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