Henry David David

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“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. The hare in its extremity cries like a child. I warn you, mothers, that my sympathies do not always make the usual philanthropic distinctions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)