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It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
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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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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