It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, …

Henry David Thoreau
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It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2015). Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary, p.85, 谷月社
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