I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomor…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842, p.239, Harvard University Press
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