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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
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