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“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.”

— Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849)
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About Henry David Thoreau

1817 – 1862

American essayist, poet and naturalist, best known for 'Walden', his account of living simply in a cabin near Walden Pond.

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