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Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
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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Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
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He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.
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A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
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Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
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The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
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