Thoreau

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    Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The greatest, or rather the most prominent, part of this city was constructed with the design to offer the deadest resistance to leaden and iron missiles that might be cast against it. But it is a remarkable meteorological and psychological fact, that it is rarely known to rain lead with much violence, except on places so constructed.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)