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Spring-an experience in immortality.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.
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