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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
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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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
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An answer in words is delusive it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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