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“I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.” quote by Henry David Thoreau — Download Open image

“I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.”

Henry David Thoreau

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