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Only the defeated and deserters go to war.
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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When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.
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As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.
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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
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Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.
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