Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that a…

Henry David Thoreau
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Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. ✨ 1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Conclusion'.
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