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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
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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As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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