I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wi…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.7, Harvard University Press
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