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We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
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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Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
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