Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the o…

Walt Whitman
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. ✨ Walt Whitman (2012). Selected Poems, p.33, Courier Corporation
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. ✨ Walt Whitman (2012). Selected Poems, p.33, Courier Corporation

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