A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to whic…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.343
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