Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
— Henry David Thoreau Modern

Civil disobedience, Walden

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Walden

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1854

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm

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