• Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet 1819-1892
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. self-conceit
2. plasters
3. leaves
4. person
5. thick

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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. by : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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