“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
— Henry David Thoreau
(July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)
Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Wikipedia
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