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Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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