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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
         

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.


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