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I do not wish to expiate , but to live . My life is not an apology , but a life . It is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than it should be glittering ...
I do not wish to expiate , but to live . My life is not an apology , but a life . It is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than it should be glittering ...
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I do not wish to please him : Reliance I wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true de Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid ...
I do not wish to please him : Reliance I wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true de Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid ...
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| Title | The Essay on Self-reliance |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | The Roycrofters, 1908 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 8 Dec 2015 |
| Length | 82 pages |
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