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We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
— Henry David Thoreau Walden
Tags: nature, living, life, death
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.
— Henry David Thoreau
Tags: truth, trust
What is once well done is done forever.
— Henry David Thoreau
Tags: once, well, forever, done
The universe is wider than our views of it.
— Henry David Thoreau
Tags: views, wider, our, than, universe
Men have become the tools of their tools.
— Henry David Thoreau
Tags: technology, become, tools, men
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