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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
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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Continued traveling is far from productive. It begins with wearing away the soles of the shoes, and making the feet sore, and erelong it will wear a man clean up, after making his heart sore into the bargain. I have observed that the afterlife of those who have traveled much is very pathetic.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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The voice of nature is always encouraging.
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In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
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