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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are the victims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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