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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about nation, life, people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882, american essayist, poet and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century

Was born on: 25 may 1803.
Died on 27 apr 1882, at 78 years old.

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