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> [We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-are-always-getting-ready-to-live-but-never-living-the-wave-moves/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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