Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emer…

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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.342, Рипол Классик
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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.502, Library of America
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