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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
Diarist
Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Theft
Always
Walls
Never
Stone
Murder
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Known
Alms
Speak
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