The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
—from Henry David Thoreau, Journals (14 July, 1852)
IMAGE: James Goodwyn Clonney, In the Woodshed (1838)
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