| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 20612 |
| QUOTATION: | The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Lecture, March 3, 1884, in Amory Hall, Boston, Massachusetts. New England Reformers, Essays, Second Series (1844). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Emerson Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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