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The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.
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 have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
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