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Count your age with friends but not with years.
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 I meet a government which says to me, Your money or your life, why should I be in haste to give it my money?
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I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.
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Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.
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