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A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life.
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
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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
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