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Henry David Thoreau

“I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.”

Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
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Walden or, Life in the Woods Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
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