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Quote by Walt Whitman
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. – Walt Whitman

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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. – Walt Whitman

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