A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pa…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848, p.36, Harvard University Press
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A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848, p.36, Harvard University Press

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