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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
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