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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man...
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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Source: Lecture noted down by Sarah Yule, quoted in her Borrowings.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.