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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
         

The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.


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