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I am old, yet i look at wise men and see that i am very young. i look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see i am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. too ridiculous are these airs of age.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I Am Old, Yet I Look At

Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am old, yet i look at wise men and see that i am very young. i look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see i am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. too ridiculous are these airs of age.
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