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The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.128, Penguin
The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.