I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and …

E. B. White
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ✨ E. B. White (2011). In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers, p.148, Cornell University Press
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ✨ E. B. White (2011). In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers, p.148, Cornell University Press

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