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Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.
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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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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