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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Wisdom has its root in goodness, and not goodness its root in wisdom.
Source:
Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Houghton Mifflin, ed. 1909), Volume IX, Page 122
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Profession:
Writer, Essayist, Poet
Born:
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
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