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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions I will seek my own.

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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