• We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer 1817-1862
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. childhood
2. language
3. vanish
4. memory
5. learn

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We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. by : Henry David Thoreau

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