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Famous Quotes by Henry David Thoreau - 2

This is page 2 of famous quotes made by the American author and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement on a bad invention.

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

My dwelling was small, and I could hardly entertain an echo in it.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or a county jail.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.

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With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.

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