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We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
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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