Retired Judge

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    Still grows the vivacious lilac a generation after the door and lintel and the sill are gone, unfolding its sweet-scented flowers each spring, to be plucked by the musing traveller; planted and tended once by children’s hands, in front-yard plots,—now standing by wall-sides in retired pastures, and giving place to new-rising forests;Mthe last of that stirp, sole survivor of that family.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)