Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not f…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). Self-Reliance and Other Essays, p.42, Courier Corporation
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