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The uses of travel are occasional, and short but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation and this is a main function of life.

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
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