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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.
         

A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.


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