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«I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.»
«Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
apartment, flicker, flickering, lofty, obscurity
«The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?»
«We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.»
«I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.»
«We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.»
«The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.»
«Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
shingles, whittle, whittled, whittles
«Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.»
«I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.»
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