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Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Carl August Sandburg
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a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
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Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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