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  • Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.2, Harvard University Press
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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