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"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."

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About Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and philosopher, and a leading voice of New England Transcendentalism. His works, including Nature and Self-Reliance, influenced American literature and modern thought.

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