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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle everything else is an intrigue.
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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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
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