Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even t…

Henry David Thoreau
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Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2012). The Portable Thoreau, p.243, Penguin
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