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Henry David Thoreau

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
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First attributed to Thoreau in A year of sunshine: cheerful extracts for every day in the year? (Kate Sanborn, 1886) and American literature? (Mildred Cabell Watkins, 1894), but there is no known citation to Thoreau's works.

 
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