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For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.
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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My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
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There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.
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If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
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Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
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