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We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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