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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
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 us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
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