Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Stronger Lessons, Leaves of Grass (1867); Poetry excerpt; verified in the Whitman Archive web-retrieved text.
- Stronger Lessons, Leaves of Grass (1867)
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