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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.
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Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Houghton Mifflin, ed. 1909), Volume V, Page 328
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Writer, Essayist, Poet
Born:
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
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