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Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

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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