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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
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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Do your thing, and I shall know you.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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