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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.
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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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
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