Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
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The man of genius knows what he is aiming at nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way.Henry David Thoreau
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.
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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.
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In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
Henry David Thoreau
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