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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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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Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
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Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
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