I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in…

Henry David Thoreau
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. ✨ 1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Solitude'.
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