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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
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 find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
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