Difference Principle

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    The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    Thus it seemed that this one hillside illustrated the principle of all the operations of Nature. The Maker of this earth but patented a leaf. What Champollion will decipher this hieroglyphic for us, that we may turn over a new leaf at last?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)