"Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth." --- From "The Custom House" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Perhaps it has come the time for some of us to go on to a new place, having worn out our "American soil," our American lives; to make room for others who find this place more to their liking?
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