It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most…

Henry David Thoreau
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It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2014). Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown, p.33, Graphic Arts Books
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