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Essays: First Series Quotes
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
Source:
(James Munroe and Co, ed. 1841), Essay VI. Friendship, Page 174
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Essays: First Series
Writer:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genre:
Essays
Published:
1841
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