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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

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I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

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Great conversation... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Born: May 25, 1803
Died: April 27, 1882 (aged 78)
Bio: Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Known for:
  1. Self-Reliance (1841)
  2. Nature (1836)
  3. Essays: First Series (1841)
  4. Representative Men
  5. The Conduct of Life (1860)
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