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Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
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
Waldo Emerson
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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
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