In the essay "Friendship", this transcendentalist observed, "Thou art to me a delicious torment"
[DOC] [TLE] Ralph Waldo Emerson - Wikiquote [PAR] 1.5.1 History; 1.5.2 Self-Reliance; 1.5.3 Compensation; 1.5.4 Friendship; 1.5.5 ... 
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