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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
         

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.


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