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“A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“Here in the country it is only a few idle boys or loafers that go a-fishing on a rainy day; but there it appeared as if every able-bodied man and helpful boy in the Bay had gone out on a pleasure excursion in their yachts, and all would at last land and have a chowder on the Cape.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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