Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty …

Henry David Thoreau
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Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. ✨ 'Walden' (1854) 'The Village'
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