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“ ”Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.
About Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
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Additional quotes by Henry David Thoreau
They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.