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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
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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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
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