“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

— Henry David Thoreau · Life quote

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — Henry David Thoreau quote card
Writer, naturalist · 1817 – 1862

American writer known for Walden (1854) and the essay Civil Disobedience.

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