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A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
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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Hear! hear! screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.
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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
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If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.
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I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.
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