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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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Law never made men a whit more just and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
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The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
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