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Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
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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Go not to the object let the object come to you.
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