A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for lif…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.83, Harvard University Press
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.83, Harvard University Press

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