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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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Henry David Thoreau (Life Without Principle Quotes)
  • Book: Life Without Principle
  • Writer: Henry David Thoreau
  • Genre: Philosophy, Essays
  • Published: 1863
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