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It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
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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The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.
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