Thoreau

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“The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I saw a guide-post surmounted by a pair of moose horns.... They are sometimes used for ornamental hat-trees, together with deer’s horns, in front entries; but ... I trust that I shall have a better excuse for killing a moose than that I may hang my hat on his horns.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)