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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
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