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Laurence Sterne (1713-1786) Anglo-Irish novelist, Anglican clergyman
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Wealth,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 3
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