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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher, essayist, and poet

May 25th, 1803 - April 27th, 1882

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