Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.Henry David Thoreau
If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behavior.
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You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.
Henry David Thoreau
But why should not the New Englander try new adventures not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards and raise other crops than these Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men.
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All good things are cheap all bad are very dear.
Henry David Thoreau
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
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