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

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Journal (14 Jul 1852)

 
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