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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
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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Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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