Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. ✨ R…

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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871, p.21, University of Georgia Press
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