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A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Speech, January 25, 1841, before the Mechanics’ Apprentices’ Library Association, Boston, Massachusetts. “Man the Reformer,” Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (1849).

Categories: Essayist, Labor, Philosopher, Poetry And Poets, Work

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