The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be …

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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1862). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau, p.133
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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1862). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau, p.133

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