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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. ... it
is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy me
something which does not represent your life and talents, but a
goldsmith's.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Gifts", p. 279

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