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NUMBER:59611
QUOTATION:Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.
ATTRIBUTION:Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, August 18, 1857, to Daniel Ricketson, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 312, Houghton Mifflin (1906).
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