Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. ✨ Ra…

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.435
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