I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me al…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.207, Penguin
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I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.207, Penguin

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