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HENRY DAVID THOREAU ~ HOW DO MOST MEN LIVE?

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

10 July 2013

Edmund Charles Tarbell (American painter) 1862 – 1938

Interior of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, ca. 1926

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“And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Alone Emilio Longoni – 1900

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