The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man…

Henry David Thoreau
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The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2016). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, p.217, Xist Publishing
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The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2016). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, p.217, Xist Publishing

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