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Book: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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  1. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

    I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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  2. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

    One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle."
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  3. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

    I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
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