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In America, where surface has always passed for substance, people always believe guys like Frank Dunning.
“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
“Freedom begins between the ears.”
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“Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”
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