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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

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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