Thousand Leaves

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“Civilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve;Mthe heart burnings, the jealousies, the social rivalries, the family dissensions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts of refined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate of human misery.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“And I her son, though summer-born
And summer-loving, none the less
Am easier when the leaves are gone....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)