Henry David Thoreau: The South may keep her pine-apples, and we will be content with our strawberries, which are, as it were, pine-apples wit

The South may keep her pine-apples, and we will be content with our strawberries — Henry David Thoreau

The South may keep her pine-apples, and we will be content with our strawberries, which are, as it were, pine-apples with "going a-strawberrying" stirred into them, infinitely enhancing their flavor.

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