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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.

Henry David Thoreau
Dream, Time, Memories
1841 Journal entry, 19 Feb.
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.