Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could s…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). Emerson in His Journals, p.122, Harvard University Press
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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). Emerson in His Journals, p.122, Harvard University Press

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