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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
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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Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
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