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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Suspense, Thriller, War, and Women's Fiction


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