As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. β¨ Henry David Thoreau (1882). Walden, p.93
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- Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. β¨ Henry David Thoreau (1995). Walden, Or, Life in the Woods, p.203, Courier Corporation
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- What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress. β¨ Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). The Heart of Thoreau's Journa β¦ βΆ
- Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. β¦ βΆ
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