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We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.
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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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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Line in Nature is not found Unit and Universe are round.
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