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I do not wish to please him I wish that he should wish to please me.
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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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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America is a country of young men.
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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
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