“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Source: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.”
— Jodi Picoult, book Keeping Faith
Source: Keeping Faith
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