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It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.
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 suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
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They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
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It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
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