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Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!
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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I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
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The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
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Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.
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We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
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Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
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But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
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