The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau in Walden, 1854
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau in Walden, 1854
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

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I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

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