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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great man knew not that he was great.  It took a century or two
for that fact to appear.  What he did, he did because he must; it was
the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of circumstances of
the moment.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Spiritual Laws", p. 82

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