When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emer…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed
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