Thoreau

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“We aspire to be something more than stupid and timid chattels, pretending to read history and our Bibles, but desecrating every house and every day we breathe in.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Hawthorne, too, I remember as one with whom I sauntered, in old heroic times, along the banks of the Scamander, amid the ruins of chariots and heroes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is no better, at least, than to assist at a slaughter-house.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)