Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
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To inherit property is not to be born it is to be still-born, rather.
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Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
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On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
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