They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the c…

Henry David Thoreau
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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1995). Walden, Or, Life in the Woods, p.30, Courier Corporation
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