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For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

Henry Van Dyke

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Henry Van Dyke
Age: 80 †
Born: 1852
Born: November 10
Died: 1933
Died: April 10
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Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
Nature
Kingdom
Nothing
Kingdoms
Real
River
Rivers
Friendship
Outside
Animal
Company
Comparable

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