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" "We carry our fresh air with us, wherever we go. He who has it, has it anywhere — nothing can rob him of it. I find in all characters that live close to nature, capriciousness, variability — they seem to pattern after nature’s higher rules. The children are that way, and dogs, cats — not but that their perceptions, intuitions, are keen enough, but with the capricious, too.
Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American journalist and poet, most famous for his lifelong work on his book Leaves of Grass.
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