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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.
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We are disgusted by gossip yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.
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