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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
         

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.


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