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“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blundering clod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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