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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
         

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.


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