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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
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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The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
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