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Henry David Thoreau
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Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2016). A Yankee in Canada, p.55, Graphic Arts Books
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Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2016). A Yankee in Canada, p.55, Graphic Arts Books

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