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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
         

The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.


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