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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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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Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
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I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
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