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Visor’d.

by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

A MASK—a perpetual natural disguiser of herself,
Concealing her face, concealing her form,
Changes and transformations every hour, every moment,
Falling upon her even when she sleeps.




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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
• Abraham Lincoln


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