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

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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.

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About Walt Whitman

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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Birth Name: Walter Whitman
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And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and
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And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to
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