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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
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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
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Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.
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