"It is long ere we discover how rich……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . ."

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