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Walden Quotes

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

Source:(Ticknor and Fields, ed. 1954), Chapter VIII. The Village, Page 186
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Henry David Thoreau  (Walden; or, Life in the Woods Quotes)
  • Book: Walden
  • Writer: Henry David Thoreau
  • Genre: Classics, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Autobiography
  • Published: 1854
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