Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. ✨ …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.460
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