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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
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I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true and they do not always mean what they say.
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