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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.
         

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.


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