I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. …

Henry David Thoreau
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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1995). Walden, Or, Life in the Woods, p.88, Courier Corporation
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