The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.Henry David Thoreau
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Writer, naturalist · 1817 – 1862
American writer known for Walden (1854) and the essay Civil Disobedience.
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