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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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I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.
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I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
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Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
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