“Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see — not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

11 April 1834
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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