Henry David Thoreau
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2013). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, p.312, Courier Corporation

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