Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. ✨ Ralp…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862, p.69, Harvard University Press
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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862, p.69, Harvard University Press

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