I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much good…

Walt Whitman
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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.229, NYU Press
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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.229, NYU Press

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