My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). Essays, lectures and orations, p.24
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