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Life Without Principle Quotes
To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse.
Source:
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., ed. 1906), Volume IV, Page 458
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Book:
Life Without Principle
Writer:
Henry David Thoreau
Genre:
Philosophy, Essays
Published:
1863
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