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I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
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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It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
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I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.
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