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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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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it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
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