There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an ill…

Walt Whitman
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ✨ Walt Whitman (2012). Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition, p.7, Courier Corporation
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