Thursday, February 12, 2009

Unaccustomed Earth ...

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and , so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.

- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

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