We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. (Henry David Thoreau)

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Henry David Thoreau

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