Ocupation: Author
Life: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
Birthday: July 12
Death: May 6
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.
source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
topic: Life, Children, Failure, Play Life