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High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed

Hendrik Willem van Loon

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Hendrik Willem van Loon
Age: 62 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 14
Died: 1944
Died: March 11
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Historian
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Away
Mountain
Sharpen
Littles
Hundred
Worn
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Thousand
North
Every
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Passed
Long
Land
Miles
Years
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High
Eternity
Beak
Comes
Bird
Beaks

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