I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind w…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). Poems, p.25, The Floating Press
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