How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equalit…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed
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