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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: Never read a book that is not a year old.
         

Never read a book that is not a year old.


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Never read a book that is not a year old.
         



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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.



The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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