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Ten Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
- There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
- We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words…
- It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires…
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