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“Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods