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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.
         

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.


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