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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
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