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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
         

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.


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