Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets…

Henry David Thoreau
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Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1882). Walden, p.33
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Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1882). Walden, p.33

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