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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

To live without duties is obscene.

Source:Lectures and Biographical Sketches (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., ed. 1887), Essay II. Aristocracy, Page 54

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Name: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Profession: Writer, Essayist, Poet
Born: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
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