The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage. ✨ Henry Davi…

Henry David Thoreau
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The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2012). Walden; Or, Life in the Woods, p.26, Courier Corporation
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