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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.491, Library of America
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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.