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" WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;
I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.
To you, your name also;
Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name? "

Walt Whitman , Leaves of Grass


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Walt Whitman quote : WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;	 <br />I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.	 <br />To you, your name also;	 <br />Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?