As Ralph Waldo Emerson puts it, "language is fossil poetry".
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As Ralph Waldo Emerson puts it, "language is fossil poetry".
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"Ralph, you cannot overtake Damon, OK? This is a team order: you cannot overtake Damon. ...That bit about overtaking Damon — you heard that, didn't you? ...You get that, Ralph, did you hear me? ...Ralph, acknowledge." "...Yes, Sam."
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Ralph now learned who Bud Wilson was—a cow-puncher who had worked for Jack's father for many years, and had practically brought Jack up on the range.
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If we could turn the clock back 20 years earlier to 1934, we would find an 11-year-old by the name of Ralph Gardner confronting the renowned physicist across a chess board.
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