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We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
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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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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