When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). Essays, lectures and orations, p.239
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When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). Essays, lectures and orations, p.239

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