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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

All our days are so unprofitable while they pass, that 'tis wonderful
where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom,
poetry, virtue.  We never got it on any dated calendar day.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience", p. 219

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