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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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Lectures and Biographical Sketches (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., ed. 1887), Essay VIII. The Preacher, Page 223
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Writer, Essayist, Poet
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May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
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