Tears/physiology

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“Let not the poet shed tears only for the public weal.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology before ... there were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)