I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the se…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843, p.357, Harvard University Press
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843, p.357, Harvard University Press

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