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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826, p.202, Harvard University Press
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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826, p.202, Harvard University Press

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