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There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
Source: A Winter in the Country, in Sketches of American Character, 1829.
-- Sarah Josepha Hale, (Oct 24 1788-1879), US journalist, author, poet; She was the author of Mary had a Little Lamb, and the first woman magazine editor in the U.S.