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Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.
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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Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.
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How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
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The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.
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Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
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