There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.209, Harvard University Press
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.209, Harvard University Press

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