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" It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious. "

Henry David Thoreau

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" The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. "

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