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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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Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
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