Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). Emerson in His Journals, p.195, Harvard University Press
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