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NUMBER:20602
QUOTATION:In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
Nemesis will have her dues,
And all our struggles and our toils
Tighter wind the giant coils.
ATTRIBUTION:Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Nemesis,” May-Day and Other Pieces (1867).
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Emerson Collection.
 
 
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